MedCity News November 6, 2023
Marissa Plescia

It was expected that the Affordable Care Act would lead to many employers dropping health benefits, but that did not happen, a new report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute found.

It was expected that after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 was implemented, many employers would stop offering workplace health insurance. But that wasn’t the case, a recent report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) showed. There was a 5% increase in the percentage of employees eligible for health benefits between 2014 and 2022.

EBRI is a nonprofit research organization focused on employee benefits. The report relies on the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component — which is a survey of private and public-sector employers —...

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